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by driscoll42 3y ago
NCEES which administrates the regulation of Professional Engineers in the US made a Software Engineering Exam which had some standards: https://ncees.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Software-Engine... How
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by driscoll42 3y ago
Is it healthy? At one point the team was funded enough to create the api, and now it can only maintain it. What if it was never funded enough to create the api in the first place? I realize there's a risk of building complexity, but do
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by driscoll42 3y ago
Best way to file taxes. I'll usually do this and one or two of the more expensive services just to make sure my numbers line up, and then file with FreeTaxUSA.
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by driscoll42 3y ago
It would be mildly useful to get alerts when a load is done. I know I've forgotten about laundry in the washer for a while that I wouldn't have minded a notification on my phone that it was done. Or if some maintenance needed to b
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by driscoll42 3y ago
There was a good discussion here on Hacker News about a study from the Federal Reserve related to this - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34492502
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by driscoll42 3y ago
The general education requirement is one of the single most important things that universities demand. A well rounded, liberal arts education is crucial to making sure people who come out don't just come out with a hyper specialized kn
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by driscoll42 3y ago
For Chicago specifically, there are two solutions I can offer: 1. Chicago Engineering Tech Communities and Organizations - https://github.com/driscoll42/chicago-engineering-and-tech-c... 2. Chicago Tech Community Event
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by driscoll42 3y ago
I recall a story I once read about an elderly woman showing her family videos from her trip to the Grand Canyon decades before. You could hear her shooing her family out of the video so she could get a good view of the Grand Canyon, and aft
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by driscoll42 3y ago
There's a significant difference between buying something and reselling, and then having bots buying hundreds/thousands and reselling.
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by driscoll42 3y ago
No, even in comparison to the times. The Casablanca-class escort carrier were 8,200 tons and could go 19 knots compared to the Essex-class carriers at 30,800 tons and 33 knots. the US made 122 of the slow, small carriers, only 24 of the big
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by driscoll42 3y ago
Can't edit my post but the ReadMe has been updated! Looks great now.
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by driscoll42 3y ago
I opened an Issue on the Repo for it!
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by driscoll42 3y ago
Agreed, this repo is in desperate need of a few screenshots/video on the ReadMe to showcase what it looks like.
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by driscoll42 3y ago
I got Atmos with my new Soundbar, a Samsung Q990C, which admittedly was not cheap, but with Atmos it really does work well. It sounds like thunder is above me, planes flying above, with the sound bouncing off the ceiling. I was quite impres
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by driscoll42 3y ago
Each article has been posted to Hacker News a few times before, worth going back and looking at the discussion. But really I love this blog, fantastic set of articles. I'm quite looking forward to the Vita and 3DS articles.
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by driscoll42 3y ago
For anyone that is on a rewatch and never read through them. The Lurker's Guide ( http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/countries/us/eplist.html ) for the show is a wonderful companion. The Fandom wiki doesn'
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by driscoll42 3y ago
Can someone elaborate why Mozilla gets hate? I don't pay much attention to that and just use Firefox.
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by driscoll42 3y ago
I think you mean this blog? https://www.justinobeirne.com/ , it's been shared a number of times https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=justinobeirne.com here with this one being the most popular https
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by driscoll42 3y ago
To be a bit more fair to the Chicago Field Museum, the base ticket price is $30 for out-of-state adults, only more if you want access to one of the extra ticketed experiences, which are nice, but you can kill a full day on just the base t
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by driscoll42 3y ago
What is particularly lousy about Plex as a product? Overall I'm quite satisfied with it, it's gotten better over the past few years noticeably I felt with the downloads actually working, collections, more suggestions, etc... I wil
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by driscoll42 3y ago
$10-$20 per query? Can I get some sourcing on that? That's astronomically expensive.
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by driscoll42 3y ago
It depends on your setup and use cases. There's three major considerations: * What language are you trying to OCR? And only language or also things like math symbols? * Do you have a GPU or not? * Are you trying to OCR handwriting or t
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by driscoll42 3y ago
There's only 1.9 million samples in their database, and to be fair, the people who go to that site to test their fingerprint, are probably the kind of user who is going to have a unique fingerprint, notsomuch a common user. So a comm
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by driscoll42 3y ago
I'm in Business School and took a class in Finance. In a lecture the professor presented what to do if a company has too much cash, the options where: 1. Invest in positive NPV projects 2. Store some for a rainy day 3/4. Pay divde
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by driscoll42 3y ago
You're right, Google showed $125k from other articles and some looking at this earlier (a year or so ago) and $125k sounded right. I guess they doubled it!
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by driscoll42 3y ago
Costs about $250k per person - https://oceangateexpeditions.com/tour/titanic-expedition/ (Site looks to be down at the moment, probably overloaded due to people searching after this news). I don't think it&#x
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by driscoll42 3y ago
Rotarians are... older, and often not good with tech. I've been a de facto tech support of mine a few times. They really would see some good overall growth if they invested in that some more. I don't think Rotary globally is facin
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by driscoll42 3y ago
I'm a member of my local Rotary, the one I'm part of does a lot of good work around the city. I'm also part of a non-profit, the Chicago Engineers' Foundation ( https://www.chicagoengineersfoundation.org/
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by driscoll42 3y ago
Interesting. I tried easyOCR, I found on handwriting it was about 35%, on typed it was 95.7%, so not bad at all with typed, but for handwriting pretty bad. I focused on Tesseract and TrOCR since it wasn't working out that well, still c
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by driscoll42 3y ago
This was a couple months ago now, so not that long ago. For OCR I have found that it highly depends on the type of image you are looking at. In my case these were all scanned documents of good but not great scan quality, all in English. I

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